Meryl Streep wants to bring back the equal rights amendment

24/06/2015 11:38:27 AM

Writes an awesomely feminist letter to congress to do something about it

Meryl Streep, the magical godmother of powerful feminists and fine women has called for the revival of the equal rights amendment. According to the Associated Press she wrote a letter to every member of the house and senate that read:

Packaged up with her letter was a book called Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth, who is the president of the ERA Coalition, a group campaigning for an amendment to the US constitution to prohibit discrimination against women and girls.

The amendment reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

The amendment was introduced in 1923, squabbled over for years and passed in 1972. However by the 1980s only 35 of the 38 states needed to make the amendment constitutional had ratified it.

As for Streep, the mega movie star isn’t just being a kickass feminist in real life, she stars as leader of the suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst in the British film Suffragette, opening in cinemas in October.